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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then be played by a woman of such infinite charm that she can triumph over unattractive dresses and other consequential detriments to the average woman's triumph. This Miss Hayes has done, and by so doing releases herself definitely from the (for her) ever present danger of being our brightest and best stage flapper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Sorceress Meller | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY - English drawing room at its brightest and best with Ina Claire and Roland Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Mar. 8, 1926 | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...Weak Woman. French farce at its brightest and best is herein prepared for your enjoyment. It is played more slowly than the usual French farce and indicates that an ounce of restraint may often be funnier than a dozen door slams. Estelle Winwood and the brothers Ralph and Frank Morgan are the leaders of a singularly competent troupe interpreting the exercises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 8, 1926 | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

...reports made to the Cambridge police by Officer George Kelly, who handles traffic at the intersection of Cambridge Street and Kirkland Street in front of Memorial Hall. Cambridge Street, which has always been one of the darkest of Cambridge highways at night, will now become one of the brightest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARC LAMPS INSTALLED TO LIGHT CAMBRIDGE STREET | 1/8/1926 | See Source »

Francis Wilson is above all admirable. As the lovable but provocative Rip, he plays the part of an indolent husband to perfection. Long passages of monologue are the brightest and apparently the most simple occurrences to him. His charm is positively effervescent and his restraint of gesture is an art which his supporting cast can not study too intently. Gretchen, the desperate wife who is driven to shrewishness, is played with a wealth of interpretative understanding by Emma Dunn, while George Riddell in the role of the rich grasping merchant of Falling Waters, too phlegmatic in the first act, rises...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/25/1925 | See Source »

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